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Re: www 130 released

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From: Dave B
Date: Thu, 04 Apr 1996 00:00
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In article <199604030103.AA01881@moroder.demon.co.uk>
           robotron@moroder.demon.co.uk "Stephen Mulrine" writes:

] Apparently there is a real problem with a few posts disappearing here and
] there.  Some time ago, I noticed that when I posted several articles in one
] go with NOS, only the first one would make it out and the rest would
] disappear into a black hole.  I reported this to the news administrator who
] denied all knowledge at first, then couldn't track down the problem (or
] even find any record of there being one).  By the time I'd found down the
] paragraph in the relevant RFC which said that a server was free to silently
] discard articles under certain circumstances, the server software had been
] upgraded and the problem had gone away.  I wonder if it could be back..
] 
] Anyway, since last summer, I've been posting all my articles by email to
] mail2news@news, and I don't think that any have gone missing.


I had about 60 percent of mine go down the same black hole in March. Demon
said not their fault, don't know nuffin'. Bullshit.

Now I see a post in demon.announce about a (small but significant whatever
that means) number of posts go missing. They must be all mine then if it is
small.

Jeeeeesus.

-- 
Dave B
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Date: 1996/04/04
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